fabliau

From Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:

     ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’

Inherited from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

• IPA^(key): /fa.bli.jo/

fabliau m (plural fabliaux)

1. fabliau

• fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “fabliau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau

fabliau oblique singular, m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)

1. fabliau

French fabliau

fabliau m (plural fabliaus)

1. (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)